There is no doubt our situation is better today with regard to ties with the Muslim world,

There’s no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Abu Mazen has to wake up and he has to take the correct strategic decision and start collecting illegal weapons and dismantling the terror organizations,

He has failed to give us peace; he has failed to give us security,

I am sure this is best time for them and for us to move forward toward better relations, maybe full diplomatic relations,

This government will not march or walk in two tracks in the same time in parallel. I mean terror by day and negotiation by night. If these terrorist contacts will continue, I think that we...

The question is not if they are going to hold that bomb in 2009 or 2010 or 2011, the question is when they will have the full knowledge,

We believe that Iran is trying to buy time … so it can develop a nuclear bomb,

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn’t willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel, … I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli...

doesn’t make it easier because there is no leader now in the Labor Party that can deal with us.

It (border crossing arrangement) should be made with full security that will be promised to the Israelis and to the tourists that are coming to Israel,

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We’re not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us...

We are close to a split and when the house is on fire, you have to do everything possible to extinguish the flames,

While the Palestinians are not doing anything, we would like to implement our commitments,

We made a huge breakthrough today…,

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can’t continue like that.

According to our people, security and intelligence, they are very, very close. It may be only six months before they will have that full knowledge.

Today I call on my Arab and Muslim colleagues to bring our contacts out into the light of day, so that our peoples may understand our shared desire to work with each other, to bring...

We have decided to open a broad diplomatic offensive,

Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.

finally lead to a full diplomatic relationship with Pakistan as we would like to see with all Arab countries, but of course it needs to be done step by step.

We know what kind of role Syria is taking in letting terror organizations increase their activities, but unfortunately they’re not doing anything to prevent it from stopping. More than that, they’re encouraging all of this,

I am very, very upset that the Palestinians have decided to take a murderer as the representative to the parliament. I think it is a very bad signal,

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

a barbaric act by people who have no respect for holy sites.

not to give the Palestinians the opportunity to try to arrange a big party next week in the United Nations.

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Israel is very sorry about the decision that was taken by the government of New Zealand, but we believe that if we will work one with each other, as we used to work in the...

a number unthinkable, even two years ago.

We will not cooperate with [Hamas’s] desire to participate in the forthcoming Palestinian elections, … And we call on the international community to make clear its own opposition to the inclusion of such terrorists in...

The message cannot be one of silence and restraint after such a terrible attack, … The terror organizations must know that we will continue to hunt them everywhere, all the time.

It’s not a democracy here, it’s the Middle East.

The Egyptian president is expected to arrive. We think he will probably come at the time of the marking of the decade since Rabin’s murder. But we want the visit to have also bilateral implications,

even now, we think that if Syria takes positive steps within the region, of course it will bring a new atmosphere and more peace and more quiet and stability.

Jews do not destroy synagogues. I hope the Palestinian Authority will come to its senses and not allow barbarism and vandalism to rule over the synagogues.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that’s why we’re building this fence. We’ve suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and moderation in our region and in general.

We do not consider them to be democratic elections by any means,

This is the time for all Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel. We think it will be a very positive signal to Israeli and Palestinian public opinion that there are some...

bring our contacts out into the light of day, so that our peoples may understand our shared desire to work with each other, to bring peace and prosperity to our region.

a number unthinkable even two years ago.

at a rate never seen before.

I don’t want to go into specific details, but who is going to check the luggage of those who will get in and out? Still we are negotiating these specific issues with the European Union,

It’s not that we’re going to separate our people into two parts. We would like the Palestinians to live there and we will live here.

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, … It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of...

You are a very good friend of Israel, but more than that, you are a very good friend of peace, … You have done everything you can in order to have better time, better future...

I think this decision is a very grave decision, a dangerous decision, a poor decision.

We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.

We would like to see the Gaza model succeeds,